Sunday marked two months since Sister Jacqueline Walsh was mowed down while walking along the road in Water Mill and the suspected driver in the fatal hit-and-run, Carlos Armando Ixpec-Chitay, a 30-year-old undocumented Guatemalan immigrant, remains at large though police maintained this week that they are confident he will be caught.

The search at this point appears to be focused within U.S. borders—and along the West Coast—as a countrywide arrest warrant has been issued by Southampton Town Justice Court and endorsed by a Suffolk County judge.

Once located and arrested, Mr. Ixpec-Chitay faces a felony charge of leaving the scene of an accident in which there was a fatality, according to authorities.

Authorities declined to say where they believe Mr. Ixpec-Chitay is hiding, though Southampton Town Police Detective Sergeant Lisa Costa said the suspect can be extradited if he is captured in another state. She also acknowledged that because Mr. Ixpec-Chitay is undocumented, “it absolutely makes it harder to find him.” Nevertheless, she said, police remain confident that he will eventually be brought to justice.

The U.S. Marshals Service has been leading the actual manhunt since Mr. Ixpec-Chitay fled the state not long after the accident on July 9.

Lenny DePaul, the chief inspector and commanding officer of the New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force with the U.S. Marshals Service, said in a phone interview last week that the most recent lead in the case was that Mr. Ixpec-Chitay was somewhere on the West Coast. Mr. DePaul declined to offer a more specific location.

The New York State Police Forensic Accident Reconstruction Unit has not yet completed its report of the hit-and-run accident; it is typical for those types of reports to take several months to complete, Det. Sgt. Costa said.

When asked this week if Andrew Zaro, the owner of the car involved in the crash, would face criminal charges, she replied, “the investigation is still active on all counts” and declined to comment further.

Mr. Ixpec-Chitay is suspected of driving a 2009 Volkswagen Touareg owned by Mr. Zaro, who has a home near the scene of the fatal accident on Rose Hill Road, at about 8:30 p.m. on July 9. The driver struck and killed Sister Walsh, 59, of Syosset, ditched the SUV about a half mile away in a driveway on Crescent Avenue and fled the scene. Police said Mr. Ixpec-Chitay, who had a previous arrest for DWI, does not have a valid driver’s license.

The victim, known as Sister Jackie and a member of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas order, was walking along the road when she was killed. She had been on a religious retreat at the Mercy Villa retreat house, just one property north of where police found her body. Thousands turned out for her wake and burial in Nassau County in July.

Just think of all the money that could have been saved, and the anguish the Sister's friends and family's could have been spared, IF the name, photo, AND reward was issued the day they knew.....NOT weeks after...RIP.

I think this mysterious suspect is a scapegoat for the real driver. If you have managed to elude authorities for three weeks you are either out of the country or don't really exist. Something tells me he will never be found.

How can we put the" Nun's Story" to rest without the facts? It is a tragedy tohave lost such a wonderful and giving individual and still there are NO answers!May Sister Jackie Rest in Peace. We shall NEVER forget her!!!

It’s interesting that the article says the suspect is an undocumented citizen from Guatemala. So how did this picture they gave us get taken…I figured it wasn’t a school picture due to the dismal grey background and lack of smile, and I remember school pictures had weird lights, stars and beams in the background. To be fair it might be a glamour shot…But the lack of smile negates that theory as well. My simple mind can only conclude that this was a mug shot. Now if that’s ...morethe case, one could conclude based on this that an individual can come into our country “Illegally” commit a crime serious enough to be rewarded a mug shot and be allowed to stay. I am a pretty understanding individual and know that there are people that do come into the country illegally, and are committed to become citizens, make friends, follow our laws, and start families. Although, I do draw the line when it comes to those that decide to take advantage of our system and have no respect for our society. One can’t treat all illegal immigrants the same because they’re certainly not. The issue I have with this is more of a fundament issue. This undocumented person comes into the country and probably works off the books for an employer, commits a crime (gets a mug shot picture) and gets to stay in the country. That same person runs over another individual, and flees so they aren’t caught. I’m not sure if words would express how I’d feel about this scenario if this individual committed a hit and run and one of my loved ones had been killed. It would be bad enough if it were a legal citizen, but an undocumented individual that had already been arrested for another crime severe enough to get a mug shot…As a pretty simple-minded individual I feel that there is something just not right with this case.

This coming Monday afternoon will mark the TENTH week of this case being unsolved. Chief Wilson and Supv. Throne-Holst have still not commented publicly on the wisdom behind not releasing the suspect's name and photo for 11 days after his escape.

As daylight is fading earlier, just before the Equinox, one pictures Sister Walsh walking in a similar evening light ten weeks ago, when she was moved down and abandoned, to die alone on that bucolic Water Mill road.